I just can't anymore. I really can't. How have Confederate statues become the new HOT politically correct issue the Left has gone nuts for? Before this it was Transgender bathroom stuff (which I don't have a problem with after the age of 18), gay marriage (I support), equal pay (I support), illegal immigrant amnesty (I support - with the following: can't vote for 13 years, deport if there's a violent criminal past, all future illegals are deported with no questions asked) and abortion (I'm Pro-Choice). Point is, I live in the South and have moderate views that align with a number of the issues the Left is fighting for; but the all out war on Confederate Statues has gone too far and it's a very slippery slope we don't want to go down.

The University of Texas just removed 4 Confederate statues this past weekend (https://www.yahoo.com/gma/university-texas-removes-4-confederate-statues-overnight-093405595--abc-news-topstories.html) At night they came and like cowards they didn't even open it up to a discussion about it. At least Charlottesville voted on it. Being a UT alumni, I will never give the University of Texas at Austin another penny for how they handled the situation. Our country's past is our past (not our present or future), history is a very important part of who we are and how we got here. Removing it because it POLLS WELL is spineless and deserves to be called out. With this logic we need to remove everything and anything that's older than 5 minutes. Demo every building that was built in the 1960s during the Civil Rights era, demo every single historic building that was built before 1865 because odds are a slave helped construct it (includes the White House), removal of the Statue of Liberty because France was a slave country for over 400 years and killed tens of thousands of Native Americans, remove anything and everything related to Obama because he opposed Gay Marriage UNTIL it started to poll well 5 years ago. We have to stop over-correcting!!!

Confederate statues do not represent the KKK, Neo Nazis or any other hate group. Just because a small group of idiot White Supremacists rally around a statue doesn't mean that object is linked to them and their cause. If that same group of White Supremacists rallied around Mount Rushmore because it has faces of slave owners, do we automatically link that monument to being racist and destroy it? You have to fight the group directly and not what you think's a symbol for that group. Do you think if we removed every Confederate statue in the country we would see the extinction of White Supremacists? By removing them, the Left is trying to create a direct link between those radical groups and those historic statues.; which is wrong on so many fronts. Those statues have been around for generations and represent our country's history and should not be taken down. What about Hitler you say? Those statues got taken down and no one put of a fight in Germany...right? He's a monster and deserves to only be mentioned and represented in museums and history books. His statues were removed at the end of WWII - not 75 years later. That's the difference. I would not support a new Robert E Lee statue by any stretch but don't tear down our history because it will now get you 51% approval in a new poll that just came post Charlottesville. Use status as a way to teach future generations about what was done (right or wrong) and to learn from the past versus trying to erase it. A majority of Confederate statues were built between 1900 - 1920, with another small spike in the 1960s to counter the Civil Rights movement (http://www.npr.org/2017/08/20/544266880/confederate-statues-were-built-to-further-a-white-supremacist-future). Use that knowledge as a way to educate future generations so they don't make some of the same mistakes we did. If I were the Left I would be fighting to pass legislation to no allow any new Confederate statues to be erected. Their energy should be focused on the future and not destroying history.

The Left is playing a PC propaganda game right now. Left Podcasts, like Pod Save America, are trying to justify the removal of Robert E Lee versus George Washington and Thomas Jefferson (slave owners) because the Founding Fathers did something great for our country and all Robert E Lee did was try and destroy it. Do some homework! Robert E Lee was a military icon well before the Civil War. He served America from 1829 -1860 before joining the Confederate Army and he was initially in favor of not splitting the US - he followed the Confederate side because his home state of Virginia succeeded. Robert E Lee was on the wrong side of the war and he was wrong...full stop. He should not have any new statues or buildings named after him for how he ended his legacy. That being said, he's not even in the same ballpark at Hitler; which the Left as quick to make comparison. It's in a selected Witch Hunt that will soon, very very very soon, find its way to the Founding Fathers and every other leader/Icon that didn't have a squeaky clean past. Spoiler Alert - non of our past leaders, or current leaders, have a past that will pass today's PC stress test. You can and will always find something people will consider evil when you look in the rear view mirror.

With all of the liberal art majors these people have, you would at least expect them to acknowledge the quality of the statues' craftsmanship. These are beautiful hand carved statues. This type of craftsmanship has been lost in today's art. At least let the statue go into a museum. No way these idiots and low life's are going to spend money to go into a museum where they are instantly triggered by art from another era where PC culture didn't exist. Truly shows that they don't care about anything.

You need a balanced POV on this in terms of how Google responded. www.abrokemillionaire.com breaks down what Google did wrong. We are getting lost in the science debate versus how Google should have handled the situation.

You need a balanced POV on this in terms of how Google responded. www.abrokemillionaire.com breaks down what Google did wrong. We are getting lost in the science debate versus how Google should have handled the situation.

You need a balanced POV on this in terms of how Google responded. www.abrokemillionaire.com breaks down what Google did wrong. We are getting lost in the science debate versus how Google should have handled the situation.

You need a balanced POV on this in terms of how Google responded. www.abrokemillionaire.com breaks down what Google did wrong. We are getting lost in the science debate versus how Google should have handled the situation.